Wilson, Stephen2004 Rockefeller Fellowship Recipienthttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/33522015-08-02T22:34:16Z2015-08-02T22:34:16Z2004 Rockefeller New Media Foundation ProposalWilson, Stephenhttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/33532015-07-08T01:25:32Z2006-07-26T17:41:19Z2004 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
Wilson, Stephen
Guests, Parasites and Symbionts, is an interactive art and biology installation in which
visitors will engage with live organisms derived from their own bodies and from those
of other participants. Using the techniques of biology and medicine, the installation
proposes to make visible these organisms and to create an engaging and provocative
media environment for the interaction. It is based on what I already did in Protozoa
Games. In this new version visitors will make physical contact with some device that
will acquire their organisms. It then will provide for immersive sound, video, and
animation events in which the flow of events are controlled by the interactions of the
visitor's movements and gestures in the space (read by motion tracking technology)
and the movements of the single cell organisms that are part of their body as made
visible by a digital microscope. A projection screen will project their microorganisms
situated as part of interactive digital animations and video created in Director. Another
version of the installation will allow multiple visitors to engage with each other and
each other's organisms and another version will let web visitors engage the protozoa.
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